I felt the familiar feeling of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted from watching claude-code work and my phone. “What’s the point of it all?” I thought, LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll? This was the third time I gave claude-code a try. I felt the same feelings every single time and ended up deleting claude-code after 2-3 weeks, and whaddyouknow?
Whenever I’m learning a new resource/concept and pull up the example code, I have the habit of typing it out instead of copy-pasting. Is it slower? Definitely. But it does make a big difference in actually understanding what you’re doing